The other side of the ledger
"The other side of the ledger" is an Indian view of the Hudson's Bay company. The Hudson's Bay company's 300th anniversary celebration where Queen Elizabeth IIamong the other guests was present, was no occasion for joy among the people whoselives were tied to the trading stores. During the past 300 years, the history has beenwritten by white men. They have only focused on the generosity of the traders and thebenefits brought to the Indians. However, there is a sharp contrasting view from whatIndians have to say about their lot in the company's operations. At the time of the history, Hudson's Bay company was expended over 1 millionsquare miles of land which is now known as Canada. The Rupert's Land at that time wasoccupied by the Indians. They (Indians) believed that the land belonged to all men andhence, the land owned by the individual was unknown. However, they failed torecognize that the white men had felt superiority to impose power over their identities. Hence, they just drifted bit by bit into white men's monopoly and never got out of it. Overall, I think, the film has covered up all the basic arguments of the Indians andhas helped to understand the period and the people of that tim
Now when Indians are just dependent on fishing, govn't has set the restrictions onwhere it is appropriate for them to fish and where it is not. Some of the contemporary historians (loyalists) claim that since Canada was afree country, Indians could have proceeded further in success. Well, they had legal rightto go to city just like other Canadian, but in order to do so they had to give up theirhundreds years of culture and place. Indians have been conquered, and colonized by the same company for manytimes. Not only this, but since Indians were a minority,according to white men, they must learn to adopt their rules and regulation which were tostay away from the standard life style of the whites. The distribution of weapons in Rupert's land was done by the H. The philosophy behind this propaganda was to make and showthe world their identity as worthless so they could never stand up and demand for theirland. Company not only set theprices for the fur but, also for the goods for which Indians traded their furs. Such compensation I think, was not to provide financial support to theIndians but was a reminding of who owned the land, money, and most of all, the power. The cheques that Indians received from H. Hence, Indians question economic, social, andpolitical system who supported H. But this can only happen if the economic and socialposition of the Indians is brought up.
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